[bagels]

No, he said it would fly, he really did.

Edit: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1005577738332172289 SpaceX option package for new Tesla Roadster will include ~10 small rocket thrusters arranged seamlessly around car. These rocket engines dramatically improve acceleration, top speed, braking & cornering. Maybe they will even allow a Tesla to fly …

"Not saying the next gen Roadster special upgrade package will definitely enable it to fly short hops, but maybe …"

I didn't want to spend the time to find the video where the flying bit was said more explicitly.

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He didn't say "it would fly".

He said, from your own link, "Maybe they will even allow a Tesla to fly …".

[bagels]

I didn't make it up. In the above quotes he definitely implied it would be capable of flying, and more recently, stated it outright.

The car doesn't exist in the first place, doesn't exist with thrusters, and doesn't exist with thrusters that make it capable of flying, and so I think it's a little early to call victory on flying Tesla roadsters.

Discussing the thrusters in 2018: "Using the config you describe, plus an electric pump to replenish air in COPV, when car power draw drops below max pack power output, makes sense. But we are going to go a lot further."

And more recently, it was very explicit: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1801980372823187707 "The new Tesla Roadster can fly"

[enragedcacti]

"The new Tesla Roadster can fly"

https://electrek.co/2024/06/15/elon-musk-tesla-always-coming...